Oracle ADF-Swing going the way of the dinosaur!

In June 2011 Oracle announced that with the new release of Oracle JDeveloper 11.1.2 Oracle the ADF Swing technology is deprecated. ADF-Swing will be removed entirely in the next JDeveloper version. This is a mistake in my opinion as the ADF-Swing was one of the few technologies to support easy binding of the Swing UI to database. I know that that the trendy thing is developing web-based applications, but I still like Swing on the desktop, and have many successful Swing based examples that are serving our most advanced applications well.

At any rate, I think this is a good time to rethink whether I will continue with ADF for web based development. There seem to be many lightweight frameworks for web based development these days. Given my interest in Java and Groovy, I plan to explore Grails for development of Web 2.0 applications.

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